Category: Wineries

Approaching Raymond Vineyards, I felt as if I was following a white rabbit. I walked down a path, past the bushes, and suddenly there were oversized chairs on a perfectly manicured lawn with floating picture frames. It was like stepping into a cartoon. Raymond is not at all what I expected. It's gaudy, has multiple …

In the midst of farmland, bordered by the Sacramento River, is the town of Clarksburg. With a Wikipedia verified population of 415, this small town is home to the Old Sugar Mill. Built in 1935 for sugar milling, the mill shut its doors in 1993. Seven-years later, in 2000, the building was repurposed into an …

Hands down Orin Swift wines are my favorite on St. Helena's Main Street. (Granted they're the only wines I've tasted on Main St.) I know, I’m not much of a reviewer since I say I enjoy every wine. But I have two philosophies in life I just made up and will now live by: I …

Here are eleven reasons to wine taste at Eleven Eleven Winery in Napa. 1. Jordan: Jordan the winery host greeted my boyfriend and I with enthusiasm and grace. He shook our hands in a non-machismo way accompanied with a big smile. His first words to us were, "it's so nice to meet you!" I felt …

Today I bring you Tank Garage. Not going to lie, it reminded me of Cars Land at Disneyland: old fashioned with a hint of cartoony. I know I say this about every place, but I instantly fell in love with Tank Garage. A little rockabilly. A little antiquey. A little beachy. Three things I never …

It’s my favorite descriptive word: quirky. As defined by urban dictionary - A quirky person is kind of like Phoebe on Friends. Used my high school English techniques for that intro. Hall Winery is hard to miss with their giant platinum-bunny statue off the highway. Or the bunny could be silver. Or white gold. I’m not …

I’m going to explain wine scoring through memory. Quite frankly, I don’t care enough to research it. And if I did research it, it would validate these scoring techniques and give them even more power than they already do. The main scoring system is the Parker Score. This system is based on a 100-point tier. …